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North Korea announces zero "fever cases" for the first time since mid-May when the country first announced an outbreak of COVID-19. Authorities stated that 4.8 million people were infected and that 74 people died from the virus.
2022-07-30

North Korea rejects South Korea's offer to send special envoys to defuse the current tensions on the peninsula, after having destroyed the Inter-Korean Liaison Office, and says the Korean People's Army will re-enter the demilitarized Kaesong and Mount Kumgang areas.
2020-06-17

A North Korean merchant ship loaded with coal, seized by the United States in the East China Sea for suspected sanctions violation, arrives in Pago Pago, American Samoa.
2019-05-11

After over a year in North Korean prison, the government releases the one-year comatose Otto Warmbier after negotiations from the United States Department of State.
2017-06-13

The Red Cross warns that North Korea faces a "major, complex disaster" after recent floods kill scores of people and leave more than 100,000 homeless.
2016-09-13

South Korea claims that North Korea has launched several short range missiles into the Sea of Japan.
2016-03-3

North and South Korea agree to reduce tensions on the Korean peninsula after marathon talks.
2015-08-24

North Korea's ruling Workers' Party of Korea cancels its largest political convention in thirty years officially due to floods caused by Typhoon Kompasu but sparking speculation about the health of Kim Jong-il.
2010-09-15

Two North Koreans are jailed in South Korea over an assassination plot on a high-ranking North Korean defector, Hwang Jang-yop.
2010-07-1

The ruling Workers' Party of Korea in North Korea announces that it will convene a meeting in September to elect new leaders.
2010-06-26